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Show TAKE STOCK OF TALENTS. Good Advice for the Business Woman, and Others. Twlco a year every merchant takes account of stock. When tho work is completed tho shop-kcopor knows Just where ho stands. If a certain department depart-ment in his storo Is losing money, ho( plans on strengthening It or cutting It out entirely. If another department is making an unexpected success, ho specializes upon it nnd features It. Ho has what might bo termed a commercial com-mercial houseclcanlng. Now, I havo often wondered whether It would not pay for those of ub who work for our living to take account ac-count of stock nt regular Intervals, not making an Inventory of ribbons, laces, shirtwaists and hats In our possession, pos-session, but of talents. Tho Influences of business llfo should tend to broaden broad-en and dovolop tho fomlnlno mind; ec whenever I hear a business wom- nii mourn because sho finds Uerscir in a groove, or, as most of us put It, In a rut, I wonder why she does not stop long enough to tako account of stock. Perhnps sho will discover sorao talent which will lend hor to a moro remunerative and congenial occupation. occupa-tion. Woman's Homo Companion. |